Susanna Hood
Movement

Stratford debut: Movement for Zastrozzi. Susanna Hood is an award-winning choreographer, a sought-after teacher and a virtuosic performer in dance and music. Artistic Director of hum, an interdisciplinary performance company whose work draws on an integration of movement, voice, live music and theatre, Susanna has seen her work presented nationally and internationally on stage and in film since 1991. She was the recipient of the 1998 K.M. Hunter Emerging Artists Award in Dance and the 2006 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for She’s gone away (directed by Jennifer Tarver), and was short-listed for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Choreography in Dance for hum’s first group work, loveloathing. In 2009, Susanna won the prestigious Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Dance Artist. Following several successful collaborations with director Jennifer Tarver, including Nightwood Theatre’s 2007 production of Sarah Kane’s Crave, Susanna is thrilled to join the creative team for Zastrozzi.